If based on description from first page:
Mediatek (hennessy)
- Sold in china only, no Global ROM.
- NO microSD support
- 13MP Camera
- Dual MicroSIM

It seems like hers is MTK then...

Thanks. Will watch it when I relax at home tonight.

Will try this later at home..any explanation why need to set those channels? Any reason for this trick?

No problem using third party charger..as long as its good charger..I didnt use the one come with box due to its not EU/UK plug..

Can flash..I help my friend flash custom ROM ported from Snapdragon ROM before..

Alright. If I'm stuck, I may just give up and seek for you guys' help here.

Damn....i don't really like miui. All the problems is due to miui. If not were for the mi phones to be cheap, i would have bought other brand. Like nexus or something...

Here is my experience with trying to root the phone. Hope it help others trying something adventurous like this and not get into obstables like me.

1) wanted to just ROOT the phone. Not really interested in custom roms or kernels and so on.

2) Read a lot of guides and tutorials with different method of flashing. There are unofficial root method and there are official root method. So I decided to go with official as the unofficial method is said to cause problems.

3) First thing that need to be done is unlocking the bootloader. So I applied for it and got reply after few days. Then try to unlock but stuck in 50% with error saying cannot verify the phone.

4) found out that global stable rom cannot be bootloader unlocked. Need to flash the phone to china dev rom in order to unlock.

5) spend the next few days reading about china dev rom flashing. Only method is using EDL. The latest official miflash does not work for EDL. It cannot detect my phone in EDL. So had to use older version 20151028 for my 64bit windows 10. After may tries, it end up hard bricking my phone. Cannot boot at all. Even tried opening my phone method to unplug the battery and all but still cannot boot. Probably the bootloader is screwed as the EDL flash stopped like 10%.

6) Not sure what caused it but I think it's because of my front USB not working properly. Spend the next week claiming warranty from vendor. Went to claim warranty from Legend mobile. Luckily they manage to reinstall the rom and that guy installed global rom for me (eventhough I asked for china dev rom). Nevertheless, I am still have as the phone is back to normal and I collected the phone 1 week later.

7) Then I tried to flash again. This time I used miflash 20160401 and usb connected to the back. Crossed my finger and it successfully flashed. At last!!!

8) After 1 day checking the phone running fine in the china dev rom, I proceed to unlock bootloader. This time it works! Bootloader unlocked success!

9) Next stage is try to install TWRP and root the phone.

10) tried the TWRP and though not as smooth but it succeed. Root also succeed. Problem here is because china dev rom is using marshmallow. The system is encrypted. TWRP is unable to mount it. Followed some guide and got it working.

11) I was gonna stay with china dev rom until got advice from kawans here that better to use global stable because china dev is very problematic.

12) decided to flash back to global stable. So I used the fastboot method. After flash back, spend the next day using it and all.

13) next stage is to root it. When i try booting to TWRP, it is not showing. It shows mi recovery instead. Looks like TWRP is overwritten when I flash back to global.

14) Nevermind...I will flash TWRP again. But this time it failed. Then found out my bootloader is locked again!! Darn it. Don't tell me all I have done and it's back to square one!!!!!

15) Ok fine...I try to unlock bootloader again. This time it works on global rom. Probably cause once I used the official unlock method, the next time it will work in any rom that I am using.

16) Then install TWRP and root the phone all SUCCESS.

17) Right now, just enjoying the phone in global stable with root.

18) enough of rom flashing for me for now. Took me like few weeks with this. Xiaomi really need to improve their tools for flashing and unlock and recovery.

This post has been edited by abubin: Oct 6 2016, 04:26 PM

Simple... I have the same problem like you... so, change the router channel solved my case... yours could be the same (hypothetically...)

I believe, the WiFi driver that is in Global ROM is not "efficient".... However, I do not face the WiFi issue under Xiaomi.EU ROM...

Now that they released Global 8.0.5.0, the WiFi even worsen... previous 8.0.2.0 was OK.... The 8.0.5.0 takes its sweet time to connect to WiFi....

My help is not free... RM1,000 per hour rate....j/k...

The journey to become Fong Sai-Yuk.... LOL...


This post has been edited by azhar75: Oct 6 2016, 04:39 PM

Currently I'm using Developer ROM Version: 6.9.29 (MIUI8)

For that rate, I will buy a new phone or look for others. Joking as well.

not charging at all

I see then it must probably be a defect phone..damnn

currently using miui8.0.2 , previously before the update when i plug the phone to the usb port on my pc, I'm able to see the phone storage in "my computer"

after the upgrade I cannot see it anymore, i tried to download the miui usb setting software but it does not load the page where I can choose the usb connection as MTP or mass storage. any ideas how to get it working?

has anyone tried stable miui 8.0.5, does it has the usb problem ?

Anyone knows what are skynet delivery timings?

I was suppose to get a package today, status still says out for delivery but haven't reach yet.

possibly tomorrow they send...


maybe today cant make it

Check your notification..set USB Charging to MTP..

This post has been edited by Lineage: Oct 6 2016, 08:30 PM

Very expensive charges

the thing is the setting page doesn't comes out anymore in the notification page, anyone has same problem?

use different cable or port

In reality that is my actual rate becoz my job is "risky"...

Just wanna check, after I flash my MTK unit, will I still have those bloatware like Clean Master and some rubbish apps? I will need to install Google Play Store myself right? I don't recall seeing my sister's unit comes with Mi Store App by default, I presume it will appear after I flash to Fastboot ROM.

Sigh. I guess my sister really bought the wrong model. Didn't know there are Pro and MTK.

This post has been edited by fruitie: Oct 6 2016, 10:30 PM

couldn't wait for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4. just bought a unit of note 3 from lazada. original malaysia set

how do i verify if it's original malaysia set?